Hey, you don't have to explain to me why you want a VPN account. In an age where people are increasingly concerned about what companies do with their data, being compromised by hackers, and government surveillance, I'm not going to give you a hard time for wanting your privacy. Huh? You just want to torrent some stuff? Oh, well, whatever, sure, yeah, you can do that too.

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these people are ungrateful whiners, they got 3 years for free, yet they are unhappy because they didn't get unlimited for free. Never look a gift horse in the mouth but I guess most people have forgotten about this expression...

affwq

Cerberus gave away lifetime licenses for free that's a bit a different thing. Sure, after a few years this is no different end every additional year is "for free", but Cerberus never saw money and never sold something. It was a completely free promo.

supremekizzle

Funny thing is that I just got an email from Cerberus telling me about the cancellation, however, they also said I could buy a lifetime subscription now for another $4. What the fuck? Why would I believe them now?

JayB

I bought one for like $3 or $4 in 2011 and still going strong, so.

BoFiS

Seriously, is this one of those "lifetime" offers where in a year or three they just start cutting everyone off because they can't afford it anymore?

godutch

It's a risk with any lifetime subscription, the gym I go to offers a lifetime for about the same as a 5 year membership but gyms come and go out of business all the time, so I am not going to risk it

TruPatriot

Looks to me that it's the lifetime of the device. Buy today, but upgrade your phone in 3 months and you need a new license for the new device.

Andy Roid

Cerberus screwed this for everyone. Now nobody trusts a lifetime subscription will actually mean lifetime.

So whats the catch? It cant be lifetime offer without some catch? Are they going out of service in 1 year or something?

Ezra Byrd

Probably after a few years they'll send out an email about how they can't afford it anymore, but you're free to purchase another lifetime license, and they promise that one is really lifetime.

Guest

Y'all "it's about the principle of the thing" cheapskates need to let the Cerberus thing go. They gave you 3yrs free. Appreciate it or kick rocks, they're not obligated to offer anyone more than the 3yrs of free service they already did. It's like five bucks for a single device license. It sucks they couldn't keep supporting you moochers and they made a mistake in thinking they'd be able to afford ongoing support and service for free users but make like Frozen and let it go.

Every time one of these lifetime offers is posted all the dregs of /r/Android pop up with the snide comments.

Nathan J

As a non-Cerebus user and thus, a non-moocher, I can tell you that all your post is doing is rubbing salt, which is probably your intent (hence, Guest) but in case you have a shred of humanity, allow me to appeal to it.

People aren't jaded to lifetime licenses because Cerebus lied to free users, they're jaded to lifetime licenses because one company changed the terms and people like you defend that bad behavior. So answer us this: how can we trust a lifetime license with people like you encouraging these companies to screw people over? What stops them? What's the consequence?

Guest

Lifetime has never meant your lifetime but lifetime of the company or in Cerberus' case, the financial viability of maintaining services and support for free users who haven't paid a dime.

Every one of these whiners comes in beating a dead horse about lifetime licenses... Forgetting that Cerberus honors the lifetime licenses of PAID users and continues to do so. I think it makes more sense to question free lifetime giveaways then it does to make a big to-do about every paid lifetime subscription.

It also makes more sense to review things on a case by case basis. A lifetime VPN subscription for 40$. If the company keels over a year from now that sucks but 40$ for a year isn't a bad deal.

You talk about people like me defending bad practices but I think it's people like the commenters in here who lose their minds about every little thing that are a far worse influence. The Cerberus team is a handful of people who probably aren't making much money off the services they provide. No way in hell I'm going to advocate they should be sued and all the other bonkers things people have said about the incident. Especially since they didn't act in bad faith and made mistakes in calculating how viable the free lifetime subs were and how to address their paying and nonpaying users about it. Mistakes happen and I'm not going to forget the humans behind Cerberus and wish them ill or use that incident as rationale to rail against all lifetime subs and other companies.

blindexecutioner

What are the repercussions if they go back on their "Lifetime" promise like other developers have done who can't afford to continue?

jonathan3579

I'd imagine it's pay (for premium) or GTFO.

godutch

this is different in that this is an actual purchase, not a giveaway but as always lifetime doesn't mean your lifetime but the lifetime of the company

I’ve been using Ivacy for a while for torrenting. Except for a few glitches which the support guys fixed straight away, the service works fine. Previously they were offering volume-based packages, now they are offering monthly, semi-annually and annual subscriptions which is a I think an improvement. https://www.ivacy.com/exclusive-vpn-offer/

jonathan3579

I'm hesitant about lifetime subscriptions now. I want to believe but I just can't.

br_hermon

Can anyone care to explain the difference between all these VPN services? What might make this better than the $29 on AP feature last week (I think it was?). Is there such a good thing as a "bad" VPN service? "Oh, don't do business with X, they suck!" or whatever. Or a well known VPN service? When it comes down to it, doesn't it just all depend on who has the most / best features?

It's less than half of my 250mbps. It's great speed but I mean relative too my original speed it's OK.

TJ

You don't want any service that saves logs or is based in the US, for many reasons. Private Internet Access is the BEST! CyberGhost is also a good option and very cheap,

darkdude1

Your statement is hilariously misleading. PIA is based in the US.

TJ

Yeah, hysterical. You're correct, they may be the exception when it comes to VPN services. They don't even log Metadata, which most US based companies do.

Rami

And yet, with all those lifetime deals, I prefer paying $40-50 / year for my current VPN provider (ibVPN), been using it for 3 years and I am satisfied.

I don't know what is their logging policy, but I don't care, I use VPN mainly to escape geographical restrictions in my area, they can log whatever they want, I don't care. as even if they don't log themselves, NSA will for for them ;)

Can I configure Android to log into this VPN, or is this like others that require an app to connect to it?

Diicotomus

android has a vpn option, drawback is you need to enable pattern or password lock on your device

Adam

I'm already familiar with the lockscreen requirements for Android's VPN connection settings. My question is whether this VPN actually works natively with Android or if it requires an app to connect to their VPN?

JayB

PPTP works natively with Android. It's also about as secure as a Japanese paper door. Seriously, everything you send can be read, assume so. OpenVPN is the good stuff, that's what you want.

When you are dealing with a sophisticated technology like a VPN, you must be very careful with your purchase decision. There are hundreds of UK VPN providers at Vpnranks in the market. So, selecting the best among them is a lot tougher than it seems.

Black Hat

So I just purchased and am pretty satisfied with the quality of connection. My speedtest before VPN was 5Mbps and with VPN it's still the same.